opencommit

opencommit is a local-AI tool - top #1 and most feature rich GPT wrapper for git — generate commit messages with an LLM in 1 sec — works with Claude, GPT and every other provider, supports local Ollama models too.

Overview

All the commits in this repo are authored by OpenCommit — look at the commits to see how OpenCommit works. Emojis and long commit descriptions are configurable, basically everything is.

You can use OpenCommit by simply running it via the CLI like this 'oco'. 2 seconds and your staged changes are committed with a meaningful message.

2. Get your API key from OpenAI or other supported LLM providers (we support them all). Make sure that you add your OpenAI payment details to your account, so the API works.

Your API key is stored locally in the '~/.opencommit' config file.

If you have ollama that is set up in docker/ on another machine with GPUs (not locally), you can change the default endpoint url.

where 192.168.1.10 is example of endpoint URL, where you have ollama set up.

It's likely because Ollama is not listening on IPv6 by default. To fix this, you can set the OLLAMA_HOST environment variable to 0.0.0.0 before starting Ollama:

This will make Ollama listen on all interfaces, including IPv6 and IPv4, resolving the connection issue. You can add this line to your shell configuration file (like '.bashrc' or '.zshrc') to make it persistent across sessions.

opencommit is open-source, written primarily in JavaScript, with 7,326 GitHub stars under the MIT license. The latest release is github-action-v1.0.2 (2023-05-21).

Key capabilities

From the project's documentation:

• install and start ollama
• run ollama run mistral (do this only once, to pull model)
• run (in your project directory):

Install

A quick way to get started (always check the official docs for the latest):

npm install -g opencommit

How it fits a local-AI stack

opencommit runs on your own hardware, so pair it with a model and a GPU sized to your needs. Use the VRAM calculator to pick a model that fits your card, and see what you can run for hardware guidance. Related local-AI tools in the directory:

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Sources

• Source code & docs: di-sukharev/opencommit
• Official website: https://www.npmjs.com/package/opencommit

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